Seriously what is it??? I am proper confuzzled where this has come from. MBUK keep wittering on about it and I am stood going wtf? I personally think it's a money generator, but hey i'm cynical 😉

Do yo also not know how to use Google and wikipedia?

Yes I do, but I was hoping for some stw esque discussion.

Yep, it's just a monkey generator

cynical…or just an old duffer with no vision of the future? 😆

I am v cynical 😆 So what kind of rig do you need for that then? 😉

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjZy3jG4E6c&feature=related

Think it's great as a spectator sport, big tricks are always exciting. Thought it was a bit naff at first but watching that vid it looks like the slopestylers know what slopestyle is.

Agree it's a good opportunity to sell us another bike for another niche but no-one's forcing you to buy it, and surely the chance of extra coverage for the sport as a whole is good?

Its taken from arguably Snowboarding's best discipline

In MTB it's kind of like a cross between downhill and "freestyle jumping" (you know freestyle jumping all those techie named spins and flips that make you wish you were 15 years young, so that you could have a go and it not hurt soooo much when you got it wrong)

Its the new freeride darling…

It exists in Canukia and Yankland apparently where thems what couldn't quite make it as BMXers do most of the same shit on MTBs with slightly less style and more logos, while drinking Red Bull, high-fiveing and calling each other Dude…

Their sponsors then put the "Slopestyle" suffix on one of their already overpriced bikes and flog it over here for an extra £200 to fat IT managers who ride it of 2Ft log piles for 3 weeks before deciding the Head angle or colour is “Holding them back” and sell it to fund a 5” trail bike like every other **** else, thus the merry go round continues…

Their sponsors then put the "Slopestyle" suffix on one of their already overpriced bikes and flog it over here for an extra £200 to fat IT managers who ride it of 2Ft log piles for 3 week before deciding the Head angle or colour is “Holding them back” and sell it to fund a 5” trail bike like every other **** else, thus the merry go round continues…

😆

Of all the niches to get cynical about, I don't think slopestyle is one. It's kind of obvious and well defined and people actually compete and win money.

And it's massively entertaining to watch. There's a good section around the halfway mark on Seasons…

lol@cookeaa

It exists in Canukia and Yankland apparently where thems what couldn't quite make it as BMXers do most of the same shit on MTBs with slightly less style and more logos, while drinking Red Bull, high-fiveing and calling each other Dude…

Their sponsors then put the "Slopestyle" suffix on one of their already overpriced bikes and flog it over here for an extra £200 to fat IT managers who ride it of 2Ft log piles for 3 weeks before deciding the Head angle or colour is “Holding them back” and sell it to fund a 5” trail bike like every other **** else, thus the merry go round continues

excellent. Dude!

😆 @ cookeaa …spot on

Yes I do, but I was hoping for some stw esque discussion.

You mean you wanted to take the p*** out of it?

Crikey there are some miserable people out there – some of the tricks these people are doing are absolutely incredible, but rather than appreciate their skill let's whine about how they think they're so cool eh?

You mean you wanted to take the p*** out of it?

Don't know what you are on about 😆 The whole lets make up another niche amuses me somewhat. And @ Cookeaa fpmsl. I respect the tricks that they do, but that's what I thought "freeride, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxc, gnarlcore" or whatever was for??

I am trying to get back into "riding my bike". The fragmentation of the aggressive-jeycore-lite scene has become too confusing. I no longer know what bike I'm supposed to take on rides or whether they're going to be ambient, trail, aggressive-xc, XXXC, gnarl-lite or free-core. 🙂

You moron. It's evolution of a sport – how do you think mountain biking in general started? Some guys took their bikes off road, adapted them to work better and then the manufacturers started to make bikes that were more suited to it. It's just the same thing again, people are riding different stuff in different ways and then bikes come out that suit their needs. No-one's 'making up a niche'. How the f#ck would you do that anyway?

Off road BMX looking at that video

Its taken from arguably Snowboarding's best discipline

yep pretty much. basically you'll have a manmade area of jumps, hip jumps, walls, gaps, ladders, boxes etc and each contestant is judged on things like technicality of tricks, stlye & line choice/difficulty.

freeriding is similar in a way but generally takes place in more natural environments.

crankworx = slopestlye
red bull rampage = freeriding

if you have to ask you aint got it!

You moron. It's evolution of a sport – how do you think mountain biking in general started? Some guys took their bikes off road, adapted them to work better and then the manufacturers started to make bikes that were more suited to it. It's just the same thing again, people are riding different stuff in different ways and then bikes come out that suit their needs. No-one's 'making up a niche'. How the f#ck would you do that anyway?

Blimming 'eck someone got out of bed on the wrong side this morning! It's Friday, it's a bit of lighthearted banter, get over it! Anyway I am way in a niche as I ride with a toaster strapped to my bars, I totally ride xxxxxc toastcore dude!

Mountain biking was niche once!

The reason the bikes are different from freeride IMO is that Slopestyle courses are a bit like DH dirt jump tracks, quite perfect and groomed. But the jumps etc are quite big so a bit of rear suss is desirable.

Tsk, luddites 😉

The whole lets make up another niche amuses me somewhat.

The thing is though, the sport is massively more developed over there, especially on the more freeride side of things – so inevitably you will get more classification, sub genres etc.

Next time you go and buy a bike, and the guy in the bike shop asks what kind of riding you do

'I JUST WANT A BIKE FFS – WHY DO YOU HAVE TO TRY AND CATEGORIZE EVERYTHING AND MAKE UP ALL THESE BULLSHIT NICHES!!!'

Slopestyle with rocks and stuff

I totally ride xxxxxc toastcore dude!

I await the 2010 Specialized Crumpet XR9 toastcore rig, complete with 'buttery smooth' suspension action.

I await the 2010 Specialized Crumpet XR9 toastcore rig, complete with 'buttery smooth' suspension action.

😆

I am all about the Santa Cruz Muffin Man 'bro. Itz got a skidz brake that throws up jam!

fpmsl? Sorry I'm not 13 I don't understand your interweb speak…

But yes agreed they are all very skilled young chaps, it just seems that some marketers have harnessed their Gnarr, plus yet more stolen snowboarding terms to create a made for Web/TV/DVD/MBUK sport solely to flog expensive and inappropriate bikes to talentless, fat Larrys like me, and I’m not buying into this one…

If you actually watch some of the videos a fair competitors few pop up riding 4/5" forked HT's (basically Dirt jump bikes), so why does it have to be a slack angled Short travel full bouncer for Slopestyle?

And once I've bought this super bike where precisely am I going to find suitably Gnarr places to ride it, where exactly will I find a Crankworx-esque “Slopestyle” course in the UK with all those massive structures, groomed kickers and landings and 40Ft wall rides?

Bollocks, it’s not progress it’s marketing!

No doubt there are some people who have built themselves what you describe cookeaa. I use my XC bike to ride downhill courses on, is that any different to buying a slopestyle bike and using it for XC or DH?

Oh, and the riders think they are "cool" because frankly, they are 😀

But yes agreed they are all very skilled young chaps, it just seems that some marketers have harnessed their Gnarr, plus yet more stolen snowboarding terms to create a made for Web/TV/DVD/MBUK sport

Maybe but if it allows people to more easily make a living by being amazing on a bike then fair play to them imo.

Nah it's all toss… Just buy a bike and ride it…

Stop spanking yourself over interweb videos of 18 year olds in ill fitting jeans back flipping a bike you can't afford…

Nah it's all toss… Just buy a bike and ride it…

What are you doing on this forum then?

What is the difference between freeride and slopestyle then? Also, how can you have a freeride competition? Anyway, I thought they were both big tricks on big bikes (i.e. not 24").

people on here bang on about all the different niches in MTB, then list a string of names that i never hear outside of this forum, as far as i'm concerned slopestyle is just a type of freeride, just on a given course. don't like slopestyle bikes, don't buy one then. simple really.

(i don't have one either)

just because you never will have the skills to ride it doesn't mean you have to be so ignorant

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Can I have my high-horse back please?

What are you doing on this forum then?

Trolling of course, isn't everyone else?

can i just re-classify my bikes or should i buy new ones.